Historical analysis of legal opinions with a sparse mixed-effects latent variable model

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 740-749

  Yangwang, William ^a   Mayfield, Elijah ^a   Naidu, Suresh ^b   Dittmar, Jeremiah ^c  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; JOINT LEARNING; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; MIXED-EFFECTS MODELS; PARAMETER SETTING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

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EID: 84878178053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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